Match 2023

Welcome to Stanford Surgery! And congratulations on choosing surgery! We're honored you're considering our program as a place you want to spend the next seven years of your life. As we navigate another pandemic year, we know not everyone will be able to make it to campus in person. We hope our hybrid options—like the virtual tours and videos below—will allow you to get to know us from wherever you are. Good luck in the Match!

Key Dates

Feb. 1 - Ranking Opens

March 1 - Rank Order List Certification Deadline

March 17 - Match Day!

Training Sites

500p - New Stanford Hospital

The new Stanford Hospital opened November 17, 2019. The 824,000-square-foot, seven-story medical building features 368 private patient rooms and 28 state-of-the-art operating rooms. It is the only Level 1 trauma center between San Francisco and San Jose.

Kaiser Santa Clara

The Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center serves more than 400,000 members in the Santa Clara service area.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH)

Lucile Packard Childen's Hospital is located adjacent to the Stanford Hopsital in Palo Alto. With the opening of the new building in December 2017, the hospital gained an additional 149 patient beds and has a total of 13 operating rooms, more than any other children’s hospital in Northern California. As of 2021, LPCH has placed nationally in all 10 ranked pediatric specialties on U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals survey and placed in the top 10 on the national honor roll list.

VA Palo Alto

The Veterans Affairs Hospital in Palo Alto operates nearly 900 beds, including three nursing homes and a 100-bed homeless domiciliary serving more than 85,000 enrolled veterans.

Professional Development

Surgical residents in the standard 5+2 track (General and Vascular Surgery) or 6+1 track (PRS) spend two years focusing on their professional development (PD) after their third clinical year. An expansion of the traditional “research years,” residents at Stanford Surgery may choose from several paths that expand their knowledge and advances their career. From bench work in a wet lab to outcomes fellowships to earning additional degrees, only your imagination is the limit.

General Surgery

Kathryn Taylor, MD
General Surgery

Dr. Taylor was a National Clinician Scholar at the University of Michigan during her PD years.

Deshka Foster, MD, PhD
General Surgery

Dr. Foster added a year to her PD time in order to earn a PhD in Cancer Biology. She also worked in the Longaker Lab studying post-surgical abdominal adhesions, and had a child.

Alfred Song, MD, PhD
General Surgery

Dr. Song completed a fellowship with the Byers Center for Biodesign and is now a clinical innovation fellow at Intuitive Surgical, makers of the Da Vinci Robot.

Sue Fu, MD
General Surgery

Dr. Fu is earning a Masters in Public Health Policy while also doing health services research. She was also instrumental in adding new structures to the pre-PD program.

Kirbi Yelorda, MD, MPH
General Surgery

Dr. Kirbi Yelorda not only conducted health services research and earned an advanced degree during her PD years, but she also directed a pipeline program for URM high school students.

Charlotte Rajasingh, MD
General Surgery

Dr. Charlotte Rajasingh talks about why she chose Stanford Surgery and using her Professional Development years to earn an MPH while conducting health services research.

Dan Stolz, MD
General Surgery

Dr. Stolz pursued a varitey of opportunities during his research years including projects on liver grafts and MIS. He was also a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub fellow.

Jeff Choi, MD, MS
General Surgery

Dr. Jeff Choi talks about the serendipitous course of his PD years. After earning a master's degree in epidemiology, he still had questions. So Dr. Choi got permission to take a third year and earned a second master's, this time in bio-informatics. Read some of the papers Dr. Choi has published over the years from rib fractures to a machine learning algorithm for burns.

Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Lawrence Cai, MD
Plastic Surgery

Dr. Cai was an innovator at Google Health as well as the Laub Fellow with nonprofit Resurge International during his professional development year.

Arhana Chattopadhyay, MD
Plastic Surgery

Dr. Chattopadhyay has an entrepreneurial spirit. She chose to focus her PD years on innovation and learning about the process of bringing new technology to patients.

David Perrault, MD
Plastic Surgery

Dr. Perrault talks about his professional development year working as a wound healing fellow.

Travis Miller, MD
Plastic Surgery

Dr. Miller spent his PD year doing a clinical fellowship at the Buncke Clinic in San Francisco, learning the fine art of microsurgery.

Vascular Surgery

Elizabeth George, MD
Vascular Surgery

Dr. George earned a Master in Public Health Policy as well as a fellowship with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i). Her health services research focuses on frailty.

Vivian Ho, MD
Vascular Surgery

Dr. Ho discusses her professional development time during which she is doing the Intermountain Fellowship and earning her Master's in bioinformatics.

Wellness

"At Stanford Surgery, we work hard and we play hard. We take wellness seriously, because we know that if our faculty, trainees, and staff are burnt out that it will negatively impact patient care, their personal lives, and their professional fulfillment."

-Dr. Mary Hawn, Department Chair

In addition to the school-wide Stanford Well MD/PhD Program, our department's Balance in Life Program (BIL) has been helping residents bring their best selves to work for almost a decade. From meetings with sports psychologist Lisa Post to day-long team building events, BIL is dedicated to physical, psychological, professional, and social wellness of all our trainees. Originally developed by General Surgery, the program now includes vascular and plastic surgery.

Life outside Stanford, is incredibly varied. Within a few hours of campus are natural wonders including Big Sur and Yosemite National Park; cities with world-class food, museums, and sporting events; and pristine public beaches. Whether you prefer to ski, surf, hike, bike, or go wine tasting, everything is all right here.

Innovation

"Innovation" isn't just a word in our vision statement, it's a promise to our patients that we will continue to improve surgical care.

• Technology Enabled Clinical Improvement Center
• Biodesign Innovation Fellowship
• Seed Grant Program

Dr. Tom Krummel, the former chair of Stanford Surgery and current director of Biodesign, presents "Does Silicon Valley have a secret sauce?"

TECI Director Carla Pugh, MD, PhD, is spearheading the Surgical Metrics Project. It's the first time the American College of Surgeons has partnered with a university to do a pilot study around quantifying the surgical process. Her goal: use data from wearable technologies to improve surgical decision-making.

Stanford Surgery's Innovation Council presented "Breaking Down Barriers to Innovation" at department grand rounds on Tuesday, January 26, 2020.